In case you missed it, it’s Star Wars season. Every copy of the original trilogy in the city is sold out, practically every 3-D IMAX showing of Episode VII is accounted for, every cereal box and piece of merchandise now unabashedly adorns a BB-8 on its packaging. However, not all is accounted for. A largely unseen piece of cinema mastery exists that defies the vast world of Star Wars culture. If you are running out of media from a galaxy far, far away, I challenge you to consider seeing Turkish Star Wars, a film made in 1982.
For what it’s worth, the movie title literally translates to The Man Who Saved the World. The term “Turkish Star Wars” is applied as a way to communicate just what is going to happen on screen before you put yourself through it. Not to suggest that you’ll suffer, here; as a matter of fact, you’ll have a hell of a time…